Back into the swing

Well it’s all back to normal in London town, it’s hard to get straight back into it after having had 3 fabulous weeks off – which is why I am writing this and not working at the moment.

Sydney was brilliant, it was so wonderful to see my family again, they are certainly living in a fantastic place. Was great to introduce Sarah to everyone and show her around my home town; did loads of things together that I just wouldn’t have done if I was there alone. Oportos just isn’t what it used to be, although I still ate plenty of it, we have a great zoo, and everyone should do the Bridge Climb – tourist or not. I have fallen in love with my city again.

Had a good few days in Hong Kong on the way back – the place smells of dried fish, urine, pollution and sweat. I had a great time pissing off electronics sellers buy suggesting ridiculously low prices for their goods, and every night I felt like I was in the movie Blade Runner.

So it’s back into the swing of things here, I am still slightly on Hong Kong time. I’ve got a mountain of work to get through but the hardest thing is getting back up to date and working out what has been going on while I was away. I haven’t caught up with many people just yet because they were all watching the boat race which I regard as the most over-hyped and pointless sporting event on the British calendar, and as such I avoided it.

Once the workload dies down a little I will do my best to blog regularly but for now I will make a parting comment with regards to that old Sydney v Melbourne thing that Melbournites like to call a rivalry. The calibre of the two cities can be summed up as such:

Melbourne: Commonwealth Games

Sydney: Olympic Games